As Alison Bashford describes in her new double biography, Julian had inherited the role of evolution's frontman from his grandfather, Thomas Henry Huxley, a Victorian scientist writer.

正如艾莉森·巴什福德在她的新双重传记中所描述的那样，朱利安从他的祖父——维多利亚时代的科学家作家托马斯·亨利·赫胥黎那里，继承了进化论代表的角色。